Be Your Children's Best Friend
Being a parent is not just about giving birth, it is also about how you nurture your children and how you train them. In my culture, some believe being harsh on children is the best way to train their children and we suffered a lot in the hands of our parents because of that, any simple mistakes like this, they must beat you and punish you and then we have to accept and endure it like that because there is nothing we can do about it.
And sometimes if we do something wrong and our parents did not beat us or punish us and just warn us not to do something like that again, there are sub-parent who will take it as their responsibility to punish us and told our parents that they are spoiling us but that was then. Being a parent in this generation is really not an easy job because a lot has changed, you can't beat children anyhow or else you meet yourself behind bars for child abuse.
This days, you can't train your children like your parents do because we are in an internet era and you can find yourself on social media if you do too much. Being harsh doesn't really work on children again and being soft doesn't change a thing and that brought this question to my mind, how are going to train this gen Z children so that they can be what we really want.
Like I said in one of my post, parenthood is an institution we can never graduated from because there are lots of things to learn every day and during my course in motherhood, I realised that we shouldn't be too harsh on the children and we shouldn't be too lenient with them and we should let it be moderate. Let's be our children's friend so that they will be close to us all the time and be able to tell us if anything is wrong with them.
If we are too harsh to them, the fear of getting scold will keep them away from us and if we are too lenient, they might not take what we tell them seriously but if we become their friend, we will be the first person they tell if something is going on with them. Don't train you child the way your friend told you, what your children, study them and train them the way you think is the best for them but most importantly, be your children's best friend.
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